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You've always been able to do it, doesn't even need to be HTML, serialise as XHTML and you can include the tags on your own namespace and have separate CSS for them.

<!DOCTYPE html>

<html

        xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"

        xmlns:ns1="mynamespace"

        xmlns:ns2="yournamespace"
>

<body>

<CustomElement>Hello</CustomElement><!-- Custom element in the XHTML namespace -->

<ns1:CustomElement>Hello</ns1:CustomElement>

<ns2:CustomElement>Hello</ns2:CustomElement>

<style type="text/css">

    @namespace ns1 "mynamespace";

    @namespace ns2 "yournamespace";

    CustomElement {

        color:green;

    }

    ns1|CustomElement {

        color:red;

    }

    ns2|CustomElement {

        color:blue;

    }
</style>

</body>

</html>


JavaScript is the primary language of the web, HTML is just the payload carrier.

I don't want it to be this way, but HTML has nothing approaching even one tenth the ambition of XSLT and XForms.

If HTML were proposed today, you would be laughed out of the room.


People do for far less.

If the Covid lockdowns taught us anything, its that a colossal number of people would happily subject tens of thousands of people to easily preventable deaths if it meant they could get Applebees for dinner. Besides that, huge numbers of people join the military precisely because they value a Muslim foreigners life as being worth less than a joke degree from some no name college.

So long as there is a bare minimum amount of indirection, they happily do it.


Good. Cars only exist as a viableeans of transport due to vast subsidies and a total reorganization of society to suit them. Motorists should pay the cost of this absurd status quo.

For every one who is excited about using AI like an incredibly expensive and wasteful auto complete, there are a hundred who are excited about inflicting AI on other people.

> Where does the organisation intend to draw the line?

The answer to this question is always "somewhere". Just because I can't proclaim an exact number of trees that constitute a forest doesn't mean the concept doesn't exist.


> doesn't mean the concept doesn't exist.

No, but it becomes a dubious concept when you define forests as a collection of only conifer trees and that deciduous trees don't count for the definition of a forest.


If you look at daytime TV in the UK, there are a lot of ads targeting the elderly talking about funeral cover and life assurance and so on.

I for one cannot wait for a future where grandparents get targeted ads showing their grandchildren, urging them to buy some product or service so their loved ones have something to remember them by...


If I was vegan and found out after the fact that a meal that I enjoyed contained animal products in it that doesn't mean I'm some hypocrite for consuming it at the time. Whether I enjoyed it or not at the time it still breaches some ethical standard I have, abstaining from it from then on would be the expected outcome.

The same works the other way, and actually a lot better IMO.

Let's imagine a scenario with two identical restaurants with the exact same quality of food.

One sells their dish as a fully vegan option, but doesn't tell the customers.

Hardline "oorah, meat only for me" dude walks in and eats the dish, loves it.

If he goes to the other restaurant and is told beforehand that "sir, this dish is fully vegan" - do you think they'd enjoy it as much?

Prejudices steer people's opinions, a lot. Just like people stop enjoying movies and games due to some weird online witch-hunt that might later on turn out to be either a complete willful misunderstanding of the whole premise (Ghost in the Shell) or a targeted hate campaign (Marvels and many many other movies starring a prominent feminist woman).


Does that make it ethical to mislead people? You are stripping people of agency.

> To me, art is a form of expression from one human being to another. An indie game with interesting gameplay but AI generated assets still has value as a form of expression from the programmer.

How though? If questions about style or substance can be answered with "because the AI did it, its just some stochastic output from the model" I don't see how that allows for expression between humans.


Because a human selected it for you to see. If I send you a book to read, the book still has content and value even if I didn't write it.

In this case, you'd be judging the AI made assets as simply AI made and the human made gameplay and programming as human made. I'm not suggesting the AI assets would be transformed into art just because they are part of some human creative work.

Excellent news.

A blanket ban is the way to go on this, people trying to muddy the waters professing they just have nuanced opinions know what they are doing... it's only a horse armour pack, it doesn't affect gameplay, you don't have to use it, you won't notice if it's not there...


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